Hi all, Why Oracle allow to have temporary tablespace without the temp file? The error is: ORA-25153: Temporary Tablespace is Empty ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL> select tablespace_name from dba_tablespaces; TABLESPACE_NAME ------------------------------ SYSTEM UNDOTBS1 SYSAUX TEMP USERS EXAMPLE 6 rows selected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL> select tablespace_name, file_name from dba_data_files; TABLESPACE_NAME FILE_NAME ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- USERS C:\MYORACLE\ORADATA\ORA10G\USERS01.DBF SYSAUX C:\MYORACLE\ORADATA\ORA10G\SYSAUX01.DBF UNDOTBS1 C:\MYORACLE\ORADATA\ORA10G\UNDOTBS01.DBF SYSTEM C:\MYORACLE\ORADATA\ORA10G\SYSTEM01.DBF EXAMPLE C:\MYORACLE\ORADATA\ORA10G\EXAMPLE01.DBF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL> select tablespace_name, file_name from dba_temp_files; no rows selected ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL> host dir c:\myoracle\oradata\ora10g\*.dbf Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 3C1E-E269 Directory of c:\myoracle\oradata\ora10g 07/01/2005 03:26 PM 157,294,592 EXAMPLE01.DBF 07/01/2005 03:26 PM 325,066,752 SYSAUX01.DBF 07/01/2005 03:26 PM 545,267,712 SYSTEM01.DBF 05/24/2005 05:01 PM 5,033,172,992 TEMP01.DBF 07/01/2005 03:26 PM 120,594,432 UNDOTBS01.DBF 07/01/2005 03:26 PM 44,572,672 USERS01.DBF 6 File(s) 6,225,969,152 bytes 0 Dir(s) 9,138,454,528 bytes free SQL> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you notice I have the temp01.dbf, the last time online is May 24th Why Oracle allow to have temporary tablespace without the temp file? What should I do? regards, Sinardy